“She Said what?” Hearing loss & voice volume Women gossip, men discuss. I’m grinning as I type. But it’s a good way of getting your attention and getting into the subject of this blog. Gossiping, or discussing, can be a problem for those with impaired hearing. In Sue’s case she’s very fortunate as her friends at the stables […]
Chatterboxes Hearing loss and group conversations Spontaneous, multi-source, conversations are intimidating for Sue and a concern for me. If you’ve got good hearing in both ears and can’t understand why that should be so, please, switch TV on with volume at half level, then do the same with a radio and a cd player (substitute other […]
Three weeks post switch on It’s now nearly 3 weeks since I have been switched on. It feels like longer, which I suppose is a good sign! The beeping has nearly gone, so yippee! I returned to the cochlear implant centre six days after switch on and I was in quite a bad mood. The beeping and squeaking was driving […]
Patience Care On my way home I looked up, as I always do, at my friend’s mother’s maisonette. She no longer stands at the window admiring the view over the water – well, she’s in her late nineties so that’s understandable. A couple of months ago she was in a local rest home after a fall and, […]
The Never Ending Story British Sign Language & hearing loss Well, if TV can bring back Dallas I feel I can return to the saga of learning British Sign Language (BSL). For the back story scan down the blogs. What follows in no way intended as criticism of any particular college though, it’s nothing more than my rambling thoughts. […]
Ch-Ch-Ch Changes (Apologies to David Bowie) Deaf/hearing relationships A question I’ve been asked – How has my life changed since Sue’s hearing went down the drain and Meniere’s took hold? Well, for a start that’s too selfish a question for me to even consider. It’s not my life, it’s our lives. Last month marked our 27th year together, we’re not married […]
Switch on day! Watch a short subtitled video of me at the hospital on my switch on day! I entered a small consultation room with my dad and a video camera that Hearing Link had given me. The physicist (the guy who put the ‘electric drill’ through my ears a while back!) set the cochlear implant up. He […]
